Cape Timblón is the conspicuous rocky cape forming the north extremity of Snow Island in the

South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 1 ...

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. It is a northwest entrance point for Morton Strait. Linus Beach extends for 2 km on the east side of the cape. The area was visited by 19th century

sealers Sealer may refer either to a person or ship engaged in seal hunting, or to a sealant; associated terms include: Seal hunting * Sealer Hill, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica * Sealers' Oven, bread oven of mud and stone built by sealers around 18 ...

. The feature is named after Captain Carlos Timblón, Master of the Argentine sealing ship ''San Juán Nepomuceno'' that visited the South Shetlands in 1819–20.

Location

The cape is located at which is 7 km west-northwest of President Head, 10.3 km northeast of Byewater Point, 7.16 km south by west of Benson Point, Rugged Island and 8.39 km southwest of

Devils Point Devils Point is a point marking the southwest extremity of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and forming the southeast side of the entrance to Osogovo Bay and the west side of the entrance to Raskuporis ...

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(British mapping in 1968, Bulgarian in 2009).

Map

* L.L. Ivanov
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands
Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.

References

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
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